Switching circuit



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INVENTOR Alden Pockord.

5M ATTORNEY assess'z SWITCHING cmcurr Alden Packard, Sunbury, Pa, assignor to West? inghouse Electric Corporation, East Pittsburgh, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application December 27, 1950, Serial N. .2o2 ,8cs

5 Claims. (01. 315-19) This invention relates to cathode ray tube circuits, and relates more particularly to picture tube circuits of television receivers.

In some television receivers, circuits for the electronic enlargement of the central portions of the pictures are provided. These usually include relays energized by push-buttons which, when enlargement of the pictures is desired, close circuits which insert resistors in theheight, vertical linearity and horizontal deflection circuits, which so modify these circuits that the desired enlargement is provided.

In a television receiver where the direct current, high voltage for the second anode of the picture tube is provided by a rectifier tube connected to a horizontal output transformer, a so,- called fly-back voltage supply, the modification of the horizontal deflection circuit for causing increased picture size, also increases the second anode voltage of the picture tube since such voltage is derived from the same circuit which generates the horizontal scanning current. This increase in voltage opposes the desired increase in width and height of the picture, since the angles through which the electron beam is def flected, for a given flux density, is inverselyproportional to the square root of the second anode voltage. It is desirable, therefore, when expande ing the picture, to reduce the second anode voltage to, for example, the same value that ithad before picture expansion, This may be accomplished by closing a switch in a voltage. divider circuit connected to thesecond anode of the picture tube, but the usual switch wouldnot be,

satisfactory for this purpose since when the switch is opened, the entire second anode potential appears across its contacts. A switch which would operate satisfactorily without arcing-over on opening, would be large and expensive.

This invention provides a voltage divider circuit for reducing the second anode voltage of a television picture tube when it is desired to enlarge the picture on the face of the tube, using a simple, inexpensive switch which closes the filament circuit of a diode vacuum tube which conducts and closes the voltage dividing circuit. The onlv voltage appearingacross the switch when it is opened, is jtherelatively low filament voltage of the tube.

An obiect of the inventionis to provide-a simple, inexpensive, voltage reducin circuitior the second anode of a cathode ray tube. j 71..

Another and more definite obiect of thelinvention is to enlarge the picture on the face of a television picture tube, the second anode of which is provided with voltage from a fiy-back type supply, and to reduce the voltage to the second anode of the picture tube with a simple, inexpensive, voltage dividing circuit when the picture is enlarged. V

The invention will now be described with reference to the drawing which is a circuit schematic illustrating one embodiment of the invention.

A vertical oscillatortube ID has a plate connected through the resistor H to the armature I8 of the relay IT. The normal height control potentiometer i2 is connected at one end to a positive terminal (B+) of a suitable plate voltage supply source which is not illustrated, and

at its other end, through the resistor l3, to ground. The junction point of the potentiometer i2 and the resistor I3 is connected to one end of the expanded height control potentiometer M, the other end of which is connected to 34-. The slider of the potentiometer I2 is connected to the contact l6 of the relay ll. The armature l8 of the relay normally is in contact with the contact l6, and is connected to 13+. The

\ slider of the potentiometer. I4 is connected to the relay contact If! normally spaced from the relay armature l8.

A vertical output tube 20 has its cathode connected through the resistor 2| to the armature 22 of the relay ILwhich armature normally touches thecontact 2 3whichis connectedto one end of thenormal vertical.linearity, variable control resistor 24,. the slider 01' whichis connected to ground, and through theflcapacitor 25 to the cathode of thetubellli, The expanded vertical linearity control ZGis' connected at one end to ground, and its slideris connected to the relay contact 2'! normally spaced from the relay armar -2Z- A, horizontal outputntuben has its plate connected to 'a horiZontaLoutput transformer 29 which is connected to a high voltage rectifier 30, the direct current, highfvolta ge output of which is supplied through the resistor R1 to the second anode of thepicturetube 3|. [The screen grid 3 tifler tube 42. One side of filament of the tube 42 is connected to ground and to one side of the battery 31, the other side of which is connected to the relay armature 38 which is normally spaced from the relay contact 39. The armature 38 is connected to the other side of the filament of the tube 42.

The energizing winding of the relay i1 is connected, when the push button switch 40 is closed, to the battery 4|. Normally when an enlarged picture is not desired, the switch 40 is open and the relay I! deenergized. The expanded height control potentiometer I 4, the expanded vertical linearity control potentiometer 2B and the screen grid resistor 35 are normally disconnected from the tube circuits. Likewise, the resistor. R2v is normally disconnected from ground through the tube 42 being normally non-conductive. The

normal height control l2, the normal vertical.

linearity control 24, andthe normal screen grid resistor 32 are connected to the tube circuits for providing a normal picture.

When an enlarged picture is desired, the switch.

49 is closed and the relay i1 energized. The relay then pulls down its armatures I8, 22, 33 and 38, causing the armature 18 to be spaced from the relay contact I6 and to touch the relay contact 19. This disconnects the slider of the normal height control potentiometer 42 from, and connects the slider of the expanded height control potentiometer I 4, to the resistor H in the plate circuit of the vertical oscillator tube 18.

At the same time the relay armature 22 becomes spaced from the relay. contact 23 and touches the relay contacts 21. the resistor 2| in the cathode circuit or the vertical output tube 20, from the normal vertical linearity control resistor 24, and connects it to the slider of the expanded vertical linearity control 26.

At the same time the relay armature 83 touches the relay contact 34 and connects the screen grid resistor 35 in shunt with the screen grid resistor 32.

Connecting, the controls I 4 and 28 and the.

screen resistor 35 in the tube circuits as described, tends to cause an enlargedpicture, but as. mentioned previously, this action is opposed by the rise in the voltage delivered to the second anode of the picture tube as a result of the lowering of the resistance of the screen grid circuit of the horizontal output tube 28. For reducing this voltage so that the picture can properly be enlarged, when the relay I"! is energized, its armature 33 touches the contact .39, closing the energizing circuit of the filament of the diode tube 42, causing it to conduct and to connect the resistor R2 to ground. This completes a voltage divider circuit including the resistors R1 and R2, causing the second anode voltage of the picture tube to be reduced to a value where E is the voltage of the high voltage rectifier 36.

By proper selection of the value of the resistors R1 and R2, Emay be made to ihavethe same.

This disconnects the relay I l is deenergized, instead of the high voltage of the second anode of the picture tube 3|.

I claim as my invention:

1. In combination with a television picture tube having a second anode, a circuit for generating a horizontal scanning current for said tube and for supplying direct current voltage to said anode, means for modifying said circuit for increasing the horizontal scanning angle of the electron beam of said tube, means operated concurrently with said last mentioned means for reducing the voltage at said anode, said means comprising an electron tube and a resistor connected in series to said anode and to ground, and means for causing said electron tube to conduct.

v2. The invention claimed in claim 1 in which the last mentioned means includes a cathode in the electron tube, and means for heating the cathode.

3. The invention claimed in claim 2 the cathode is .a filament.

4. In combination with a television picture tube havinga second anode, a circuit for generating a horizontal scanning current for said tube and for supplying high voltage, direct current, to said anode, an auxiliary circuit for modifying said circuit for increasing the horizontal scanning angle of the electron beam of said in which tube, a switch for closing said auxiliary circuit,v

a voltage dividing circuit including a resistor connected between said anode and the first mentioned circuit, an electron tube having an anode and a grounded filament, a resistor connected between said anodes, a circuit for heating aid filament, a switch for closing the last mentioned circuit, and means for concurrently closing said switches. 5. In combination with a cathode ray tube having a second anode, a direct current high voltage source for said anode, a first resistor connected between one side of said high voltage source and said anode, an electron tube having a filament and a cathode, means connecting the filament of said electron tube to the side of said high voltage source opposite the side to which said first resistor is connected, a second resistor connected be tween said anode of said cathode ray tube and said anode of said electron tube, a circuit for heating said filament of said electron tube, and a switch for closing the circuit for heating said filament of said electron tube and concurrently References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,098,390 Iams Nov. 9, 1937 2,121,760 Lowry et al June 21, 1938 2,276,455 Beers Mar. 17, 1942 2,300,452 Lewis Nov. 3, 1942 2,438,359 Clapp Mar. 23, 1948 2,443,030 Foster June 8, 1948 2,449,969 Wright Sept. 28, 1948 2,510,670 Trott June 6, 1950. 2,512,779 Sherwin et al. 1 June 27, 1950 2,543,719 Clark Feb. 27, 1951 2,555,829 Barco June 5, 195.1 2,559,078 Kell July 3, 1951 2,564,588

Wendt Aug. 14, 1951. 

